In New York City, most students apply to middle school during their fifth grade year. Watch this NYCDOE video series to learn all about middle school admissions this year. NYCDOE Enrollment Information
Middle school offers are now available! You can get your offer in your MySchools account or through your child's school.
Questions? Contact Mr. Lamy or your child's classroom teacher for more information.
The Morning Bell is a new blog on our NYC Public Schools (NYCPS) website, updated weekly with important information and stories about what is happening right now in our schools, as well as resources to support your child's learning journey. Each month, you will find book recommendations for all grades, a preview of key dates and deadlines in the month ahead, and a comprehensive list of student opportunities. The Morning Bell also gets you inside the classroom with stories and profiles about our schools, staff members, and students that you won't find anywhere else.
You can help our PS159 teachers by donating to their classroom projects. Make a difference where it counts and know that your donations are making your child's learning better than ever!
PS 159 has partnered with The Parent Institute to bring you two exciting newsletters.
The Parent Institute provides two monthly newsletters to make it easier for busy parents to make a positive difference every day. Use these links to find tips that you can use and watch the positive impact on your student's achievement!
School Success Ideas for Families
Let's have perfect on-time attendance. Coming promptly to school at 8:20am is important because classes start immediately with breakfast and our SEL morning program. (Lateness and attendance are recorded in student records. ) Also, remember that school ends at 2:40p.m.
Sanford Harmony picture showing children from different cultures working together.
Harmony provides our P.S.159 students with the tools to foster and support social connections among each other and to promote the social, emotional, and cognitive skills they need to successfully negotiate peer interactions, develop positive peer relationships, and thrive in school. Harmony incorporates multiple methods to teach positive relationships and create an inclusive classroom environment. This multi-layered approach is necessary to build a mutually respectful learning community here in our classrooms.
These goals are accomplished through:
By combining these approaches, students not only gain interpersonal competencies, but they also have continual experiences that promote the development of positive attitudes and relationships, as well as a supportive classroom climate.
Children develop empathy (the ability to identify with and understand another person’s emotions), reduce stereotyped thinking, and learn critical thinking skills.
A circle graph showing the five Sanford Harmony programs.
Healthy and unhealthy communication patterns are explored, and children practice effective ways of engaging with others.
Children learn constructive approaches to resolving conflict, focusing on conflict-resolution steps that facilitate healthy relationship patterns.
Children practice positive social skills and learn the qualities that are important to friendship, the consequences of bullying, and how to provide peers with support.
Dear Families:
Fulfilled, happy, confident, responsible, kind, and loving. We have learned that these are goals families want for their children, and as teachers, what we want for our students.
We recognize that as a family member, you are our students’ first teacher and we want to partner with you to help our children become tolerant, compassionate, and caring adults. To support achieving these goals and to help our students build their social and emotional skills, we are pleased to share that we are implementing Harmony SEL in our school community.
Social and emotional learning (SEL) helps children by promoting their health and emotional well-being and contributing to the prevention of violence, truancy, bullying, and substance abuse. In addition, SEL is associated with significant gains on academic achievement tests.
Harmony is designed to build healthy relationships among students by having them engage in activities that promote understanding and respect. Over the course of the five units listed below, students will enhance their abilities to learn, work, and spend time together.
Information will be sent home periodically, sharing activities in each unit. You will find out more about Harmony Goals, Meet Up, Buddy Up, and other fun strategies being used in the classroom. We welcome your feedback. To learn more about Harmony please visit harmonysel.org.
Thank you for your support!
Sincerely,
Pacing plans provide flexible ways to incorporate the Harmony SEL Online Learning Portal’s Daily Practices, Lessons, Activities, and Games into your instructional program. Daily practices are designed to be used 3-5 times per week, while lessons can be taught in one setting, or divided over several days to suit your schedule. While flexibility of pacing is encouraged, Harmony recommends that units and lessons be taught in order.
The following plans are samples of ways the program might be implemented.
Sanford Harmony's Alien "Z"
If you could be any superhero, what power would you want to have?
